Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Knowledgebase

iThenticate (Students and Faculty)

iThenticate is a web-based program designed to compare written works with over 40 billion web pages and several million scholarly sources. SIUE graduate students and full-time faculty can utilize iThenticate for verifying the originality and correctly cited sources in graduate student theses and dissertations and faculty are able to use the tool to verify research grants and other professional works.

Who Can Use iThenticate

Only full-time faculty and graduate students in research-based programs
can join SIUE's iThenticate account. (Others can use iThenticate, but
must pay for the service).

How many Similarity Reports can be generated?
According to the iThenticate site, up to five Similarity Reports will
be processed for a single submission. If revisions are substantial in
subsequent revisions, iThenticate may require the later drafts be
submitted as a new manuscript.